Last Sunday, we heard the earlier part of Matthew's Gospel where Matthew describes how John the Baptist is the one coming to prepare the way of the Lord. Remember, John began to teach in the desert of ...

Messianic congregations are sponsoring Torah studies, b’nai mitzvot, klezmer concerts, kosher food pantries, Shabbat dinners, singles gatherings and Hebrew schools with the goal of creating an ...

Popular preacher and Prophet, Peter Anamoh of the Machaira of the Pneuman Foundation says it is wrong for people to preach about the personality of Jesus Christ. Many Christian believers perceive ...

A fascinating study of story, homiletics, humor, faith and the art of preaching. Take an unprecedented look at a pastor moving from scripture to sermon. Through interviews with family and colleagues, ...

On the first day of our introductory preaching course, my colleague presents a continuum. At one end is the view that the preacher has sole responsibility to make the gospel heard, to get Jesus to ...

The Shabbat morning service at Congregation Sha’arei Shalom in this suburb of Raleigh has a familiar feel to anyone who grew up in a mainstream American synagogue. Sixty adults and a handful of ...

While political pundits do their jobs in analyzing the presidential debate, I’ll do my job as a spiritual leader and encourage us to keep our priorities straight. In short, as I posted earlier this ...

Prepare yourselves for the onslaught. Scot McKnight is venturing into the “What Is the Gospel?” war that’s been waging between the Neo-Calvinists and…well, everyone else. McKnight’s new book, due out ...

Amy-Jill Levine, who teaches New Testament and Jewish studies at Vanderbilt, is the author of The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus and coeditor of The Jewish Annotated ...

If Jesus walked into your church this Sunday and preached, what would he say? That’s a question pastor Jim Martin has asked on his blog, A Place for the God-Hungry. Jim is pastor of Crestview Church ...